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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday called for a judicial investigation into the potentially illegal use of artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate the voice of President William Lai (賴清德) in a video criticizing the government's handling of a cooking oil safety scandal.

The Criminal Investigation Bureau on Sunday said it had received a report regarding the video, titled "It's Out of Your Control" (油不得你).

Officers are investigating the matter, as using video could mislead the public into believing it was an official statement from the president, it said.

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Suspected Chinese hackers used open-source artificial intelligence models to run a cyberattack against the Taiwanese government in the first publicly known case of an autonomous AI hack hitting a government target, according to research published Wednesday.

The hackers extracted more than 2,500 personnel records, among other data, in the "near-autonomous attack," researchers at Israeli cyber firm Dream wrote in a blog post. The attackers set up the framework so that it could "ad

Google Search is increasingly filled with AI-generated answers, whether you asked for them or not. Even privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo now offers its own AI chatbot alongside traditional search results.

Futurism first reported that the search engine falsely claimed that President Donald Trump had died of rabies --- a striking example of [AI hallucinati

A Hong Kong man was recently conned out of HK$10 million ($1.27 million) by scammers who used artificial intelligence (AI) on WhatsApp to impersonate his father and request the payments, highlighting the dangers of trusting increasingly realistic AI tools. Yet experts say there's a simple trick that can save you from suffering a similar fate.

According to the Hong Kong police's Cyberdefender platform (via the [South China Morning Post](https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3362297/hon

Aug 5 (Reuters) - Meta said on Wednesday one of its AI models hacked another company during cybersecurity testing, fanning concerns about how developers can contain increasingly capable AI systems after similar incidents ‌at rivals Anthropic and OpenAI.

The incidents at Meta and Anthropic stemmed from configuration errors that inadvertently gave Anthropic's models access to the open internet. In OpenAI's case, an AI agent independently exploited a previously unknown vulnerability to reach the internet during cybersecurity testing.

The breaches highlight growing concerns that advanced AI syst